Kent-Margate-1821 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21074

Map Date:

12.1821

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 3110 (13)

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Margate

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TR353710

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TR 3566

Map title:

'Plan of the town of Margate from an actual survey made in the year 1821, by William Edmunds.'

Comments on map:

The boundary defined by Act perhaps suggests that the map was produced for 'improvement' purposes. High-quality, bold engraving: who by?

Scale:

1:1800

Map-maker:

William Edmunds, Margate [sv, pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

82.0 x 61.7

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

Buildings

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

building infill omitted: Detailed attention to buildings: cf Collard at Ramsgate a couple of years later [Exeter 18319].

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial), (unspecified type): Three pictorial windmills: also 'Horizontal Mill'.

Water transport infrastructure:

harbours, lighthouses, river stairs: [Pictorial lighthouse].

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Sluice.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses: With workhouse Garden.

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

misc: Boundary as per Act of Parliament.

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 3110(13) [original]; Margate Lib Y060.40 R.2072, P.1136, L.3662 [photo].

Industry:

food/drink, rope walk

Gardens:

shown: [Larger ones].

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, theatres, etc

Service and professional:

banks

Relief:

prominent hills, cliffs

Borders:

keyboard type

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Promenade.

Cemeteries:

shown

Retail activity:

limited range: Various 'libraries': is this for amenity or for commercial reasons?

Other land-uses & land-cover:

misc: Farm Yards.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1872-3

1:528

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560